What’s the fucking unemployment rate these days???

Who needs Congress when you can do it yourself?

Obama issues Dream Act by executive order…press ignores

On Friday, the Obama administration issued a memo announcing that federal immigration officials do not have to deport illegal aliens if they are enrolled in any type of education program, if their family members have volunteered for U.S. military service, or even if they are pregnant or nursing.

This new policy of “prosecutorial discretion” was quietly announced on Friday afternoon, and completely ignored by the mainstream press.

Author of Arizona’s SB1070 and Kansas’ secretary of state, Kris Kobach, told the Daily Caller: “They’re pushing the [immigration] agents to be even more lax, to go further in not enforcing the law. At a time when millions of Americans are unemployed and looking for work, this is more bad news coming from the Obama administration… [if the administration] really cared about putting Americans back to work, it would be vigorously enforcing the law.”

Late last year, the so-called DREAM Act which would give legal residency status to millions of illegal aliens who attend college or join the military was defeated in the Senate.

Every major poll has shown that the American people are overwhelmingly opposed to the DREAM Act as well as to any other form of amnesty.

However, with Obama’s poll numbers plummeting, this use of his executive powers is seen as an obvious ploy to solidify the Latino vote in the 2012 presidential election.

Click here to view the entire memo: http://www.ice.gov/doclib/secure-communities/pdf/prosecutorial-discretion-memo.pdf

The Examiner

Whether sending troops to Libya, ‘deeming’ bills passed or taking a sneak thief’s approach to them… King O doesn’t need anyone holding him back!

Oh, my gosh.

Poor obama. He’s done everything possible to placate those silly Republicans regarding border security and immigration reform, all for nothing…. because they’ll never be satisfied!

In El Paso fundraising and pushing the DREAM act, obama spoke about all the things he’d done to placate the other side and how important immigrants are in our history.

Not surprising, since excepting the indigenous peoples, we ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS.

He also showed his customary snark.

That would be nice.

Obama also said that the border fence is ‘basically complete’.

Gateway Pundit: Today only 5% of the US-Mexico border fence complete or 36.3 miles.

But Republicans said Obama wasn’t telling the whole story about border security. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said Mexican cartels have increased their presence inside the U.S., the data on spillover crime and violence is “underreported” and that between 70 and 90 percent of Texas’ 1,200-mile border with Mexico is still not under operational control.

Want us to help you out with the DREAM act? Bet many on the right side of the aisle would swap it out for obamacare in a heartbeat…

The following was sent to me by Pam. I just read it and was struck by how perfectly I am defined by it, especially this last part:

Hundreds of thousands sense all that and vote accordingly with their feet, both into and out of California — and the result is a sort of social, cultural, economic, and political time-bomb, whose ticks are getting louder.

Of course, I voted accordingly OUT of California. A former business owner, Anglo, and NATIVE CALIFORNIAN who now calls Florida home. The rest is after the jump, and a good and interesting read.

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If I was 9, I wouldn’t want to leave Disneyland either.

Kudos to our ever-vigilant government officials for removing this potential threat to our safety, security, and economic well-being.

Meanwhile, in other news:

The $6.2 billion DREAM Act passed the House by a vote of 216 to 198 last night; today it goes to the Senate.

Senator Jeff Sessions:

• The DREAM Act is not limited to children. Illegal immigrants under 30 who have lived in the U.S. for at least five years and who entered the U.S. before the age of 16 are eligible for legal status that amounts to amnesty on the date of enactment. (Those illegal immigrants’ data could prove hard to verify and be subject to fraud.) And they remain eligible to apply at any future age, as the registration window does not close.

Neither a high school diploma nor a college degree is required; as a condition for permanent legal status, what is needed is a GED certificate and then two years of additional schooling.

• The DREAM Act would also afford some federal education benefits to illegal immigrants, including federally backed student loans and work study programs. Thus, Americans struggling to pay for their kids’ college in the midst of a recession are being asked to help subsidize benefits for the college education of those who are not even supposed to be in the country.

• The DREAM Act either bars or hinders the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security from removing “any alien who has a pending application for conditional status,” even, potentially, if that individual has been convicted of a serious crime. It is difficult to estimate the damage to effective immigration enforcement that will be caused by such a provision.

• Making matters worse, the bill allows illegal immigrants with fewer than three misdemeanor convictions to remain eligible for legal, permanent status, meaning amnesty is open to those who have, for example, joined gangs, been convicted of driving under the influence, engaged in fraud or even made false claims to immigration authorities.

• Those who receive amnesty under the DREAM Act would also be able to obtain legal status and eventual citizenship for their relatives (subject to immigration law) — something reserved for lawful immigrants — even if those relatives have themselves entered the country illegally or are the ones who brought them here.

Because the DREAM Act does not expire, or impose any numerical cap, the scope of the bill’s amnesty program could be enormous. And by rewarding illegality, the legislation will incentivize even more of it — and send the message that future illegal immigrants will be rewarded with amnesty as well.

Whittier area students from Pioneer, California and Whittier high schools walked out of classes to protest the proposed federal immigration bill March 27, 2006. The protestors put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying upsidedown at Montebello High. (Leo Jarzomb/Staff photo)

California court upholds tuition for illegal immigrants

A group of non-California residents sued in Yolo County to block the state law in 2005, arguing that it violates a 12-year-old federal law that bars states from providing benefits to illegal immigrants based on their residence. A state appeals court sided with that argument, but the state Supreme Court overturned that ruling.

Among other things, the Supreme Court concluded that residency is not the sole factor in providing the benefit to undocumented students, noting that the law requires a student to attend a California high school for at least three years to qualify for the in-state tuition, as well as satisfy other criteria.
… read the rest at AZCentral

Yet another reason why California is going down the tubes…

with fresh sneaker tracks. I have a great idea for these two structures: